Chris Davies a écrit : > Stefan Schmidt <stefan.schm...@gmx.net> wrote: >> in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the >> FQDN of the host. > >> 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname > > Yes, that's right. > > >> I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name instead of a FQDN. >> 123.123.123.123 domain.tld hostname > > Fine. > > >> So both addresses are unambiguous. For what reason now would I need a >> FQDN? Why wouldn't a domain name suffice? > > Typically, I see it that a domain refers to an entity, whereas a FQDN refers > to a host or service within that entity. For your purposes the following > sdhould be sufficient: >
domain.tld is a FQDN if "tld" is a valid tld. a domain is fqdn if it contains all labels until the top domain. same as for an absolute path (aka /tld/domain). in dns terms, fqdn ends with a dot though. now, I don't see why Stefan wants to do that... > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname domain.tld > > When resolving from name to IP, the first match will succeed. When > resolving from IP to name, the leftmost entry on the first line will be > considered the canonical name (hostname.domain.tld in this case). > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
